Driven to Distraction:
Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
Edward M Hallowell, M.D. & John J Ratey
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Publisher Comments:
Focusing on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a life-long neurological problem that affects adults as well as children, this definitive book describes the various forms ADD takes, how professionals distinguish ADD patterns from "unacceptable" behavior, and how medication and behavior modification techniques can balance its negative and positive aspects.
Review:
Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.author of Endangered LivesThis is an important and much-needed book! Wise, practical, and reassuring....A must-read for anyone who knows, treats, or is an "underachiever" — in school or in life.
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Peter D. Kramer, M.D.author of Listening to ProzacConversational in tone, encyclopedic in content, and, best of all, utterly convincing because of its grounding in clinical experience, Driven to Distraction should make Attention Deficit Disorder comprehensible even to the most distractible reader.
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Priscilla L. Vailauthor of Smart Kids with School ProblemsThe highest order of helping and healing glows through this book. Informative, compassionate, practical, and — yes — funny, it draws the reader in as it throws confusion out.
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Judith L. Rapoport, M.D.Chief, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, author of The Boy Who Couldn't Stop WashingA wonderfully readable and, most important, practical and useful book on ADD.
Synopsis:
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes — from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming — and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.
Synopsis:
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes — from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming — and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.
About the Author
Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., is in private practice in adult and child psychiatry. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sue, and children, Lucy and Jack.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE
A Personal Perspective
What Is Attention Deficit Disorder?
"I Sang in My Chains Like the Sea"
THE CHILD WITH ADD
"Sequence Ravelled Out of Sound"
ADULT ADD
Living and Loving with ADD
ADD IN COUPLES
The Big Struggle
ADD AND THE FAMILY
Parts of the Elephant
SUBTYPES OF ADD
How Do I Know if I Have It?
THE STEPS TOWARD DIAGNOSIS
What Can You Do About It?
THE TREATMENT OF ADD
A Local Habitation and a Name
THE BIOLOGY OF ADD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
APPENDIX
Where to Find Help
INDEX